bird6 and protocol device

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

On 16.11.2011 14:58, Alexander Shikoff wrote:
> Hello All,
Hi!
> 
> I've started to set up an IPv6 route-server and got first issue:
> 
> [...]
> protocol device {
>         primary "bge0" 2001:7f8:63::ffff/64;
> }
> [...]
> 
> # ifconfig bge0
> ifconfig bge0
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>         ether 00:21:9b:fc:d5:e4
>         inet x.x.x.0 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast x.x.x.255
>         inet6 2001:7f8:63::ffff prefixlen 64 
>         nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> 
> bird6 fails to start with error:
> bird: /usr/local/etc/bird6.conf, line 92: Invalid prefix
You have to zero all wildcard bits (e.g. 2001:7f8:63::/64) if you're
specifying prefix.

> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bird6: WARNING: failed to start bird6
> 
> What's wrong? Thanks in advance!
> 


-- 
WBR, Alexander